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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Playing Postie: Scraps 101

This activity was inspired by this post from El Hada de Papel. After seeing the envelope clutch at See Kate Sew a while ago I put the two ideas together and came up with this, a cardboard box with the flap from a baby wipes packet as a postbox and fabric envelopes and stamps:

If you have young children you can imagine how much fun they have with this. I didn't use Kate's pattern, I made my own; and after a bit of trial and error I also constructed the envelopes differently. The stamps are stuck on with velcro, so they can be pulled off and on, I also added names to some of the envelopes, using iron on t-shirt transfers. This is great for using up scraps! The envelopes and stamps are project 6 and 7 of Scraps 101.